This website collects documents from the Milan trial in which Eni and Shell were charged together with their managers in connection with the acquisition of the Nigerian oil licence Opl245. In the first instance, they were all fully acquitted.

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The documents are archived on Aleph, the platform for collaborative investigations set up by the international investigative journalism centre Occrp

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9 September 2021

Milan Judges: Adoke received “a benefit” from OPL 245 funds

Mortgage with Unity Bank was repaid via OPL 245-derived cash payments from Bureaux de Change In their judgment acquitting Shell, Eni and other defendants of international corruption in the OPL 245 deal, the Milan judges ruled that Nigeria’s former Attorney General, Mohammed Bello Adoke SAN, received some $2… Read More

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TIMELINE OF THE TRIAL

The main stages of the judicial investigations into the Nigerian oil licence Opl245 and the Milan trial, from 2014 to the present.

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Gabriele Volpi
  • Entrepreneur in nigeria since the beginning of the eighties, with important connections in nigerian politics
  • born on  29 June 1943
  • Italian and nigerian  nationality

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Mohammed Adoke Bello
  • ATTORNEY GENERAL IN NIGERIA BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015, UNDER THE GOODLUCK JONATHAN GOVERNMENT
  • born on  1 September 1952
  • nigerian  nationality

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Gianluca Di Nardo
  • Intermediary who put emeka obi in touch with the italians who wanted to negotiate the purchase of the opl245 licence
  • born on  28 October 1967
  • italian  nationality

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The judical file

This site contains all the documents produced in the course of the hearing of the first instance criminal proceedings on the allocation of the Opl 245 block. In this part of the site, we offer selections of documents that are useful for understanding the basis of the Court’s findings, namely the full acquittal of all the suspects, including the two oil companies involved, Eni and Shell.

Money movements

  • Eni’s payment to the Federal Government of Nigeria bank account (source)
  • JP Morgan’s failed payments to Malabu Oil & Gas (source)
  • Defence’s statement on financial flows (source)
  • The Nigerian government’s brief, civil party (source)

Oil sector consultancies

  • Excerpt from the 2016 annual report on the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, by the Department of Petroleum Resources (in English) (source)

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The judical file